The 'health halos' of healthy restaurants often prompt consumers to treat themselves to higher-calorie side dishes, drinks or desserts than when they eat at fast-food restaurants that make no health claims. (Sept. 24, 2007)
Speaking on campus Sept. 20, Palestinian leader Hanan Ashrawi denounced Israel's wall, economic sanctions and 'occupation,' but says she still believes that peace in the Middle East is possible. (Sept. 24, 2007)
Author and psychiatry professor Kay Redfield Jamison spoke about her experiences with manic depressive illness in the 2007 Robert E. Hamlisch M.D. Memorial Lecture Sept. 18. (Sept. 24, 2007)
Cornell has entered into an agreement with Ruckus Network Inc. to provide students with access to the company's music and video download service. (Sept. 21, 2007)
Former Cornell student Alexander Atkind has pleaded guilty in Tompkins County Court to felony animal abuse. He awaits a sentencing hearing scheduled for Oct. 15. (Sept. 21, 2007)
A brand-new vending machine just for Cornell-grown apples has been installed in the Plant Science Building, home to the Department of Horticulture, following the early retirement last year of an aging machine. (Sept. 20, 2007)
An exhibition, 'Lafayette: Citizen of Two Worlds,' which draws on the 11,000-item Lafayette collection housed in Kroch Library, opens Sept. 25. (Sept. 20, 2007)
History professor Steven Kaplan discusses the importance of the Marquis de Lafayette to America and the Cornell University Library collection of Lafayette's papers, the largest collection outside France. (Sept. 20, 2007)
Peggy Mamet '59 is active in the Hermione-Lafayette Association, which is fundraising to build a life-size replica of the Marquis de Lafayette's 18th-century fighting frigate. (Sept. 20, 2007)
It pays to remember that Cornell is composed of thousands of individuals, all of them pursuing a dream. Three of them tell their stories on the Far Above ... The Campaign for Cornell Web site. (Sept. 20, 2007)
Cornell's first president, Andrew D. White, and his successors, saw medicine as a crucial university offering, and courses in the medical sciences were first offered in 1878. (Sept. 20, 2007)
